As UNTV Broadcasts Propaganda of UNCA, It Won't Explain Why or Any Rules, Says "Ask Bill Miller"

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 29 -- What is UN Television and why  and under what rules does it show outside-produced propaganda shows?

  That UNTV produces its own propaganda had become a UN fact of life. 

   It produces shows like "21st Century," paying its hosts how much it will not say, to describe for example its good works in Haiti without mentioning that it brought cholera there, killing over 7,000 people.

  But why does UNTV repeatedly show outside shows, most recently one in which UN Correspondents Association president Pamela Falk gushes about the overthrown of Gaddafi in Libya and claims that UNCA is a "trade association of all the correspondents of the United Nations"?

  That claim is patently false, and Pamela Falk - or Pamela False, her new name -- knows it. Back on February 22, in an on the record session in front of the official who run UNTV, Stephane Dujarric, Falk screamed at Inner City Press not to write about her, and not to dare write to her employer, CBS. (She would, however, send Inner City Press a censorship threat from her CBSNews.com e-mail address.)

  Now she has appeared in an “interview” with Global Connections Television, a venue which says its interviews “UN agencies and their ambassadors.” Again, which one is Falk?

  After Falk filmed the segment on April 3, multiple sources told Inner City Press she demanded in advance no questions about the Press or the Free UN Coalition for Access. Inner City Press wrote about that on April 4, here.

  Global Connections was asked, back then, for a review copy of the show. None was provided. Now it is online, and is being broadcast propaganda style in the UN's lobby.

  So on April 29, Inner City Press asked the Department of Public Information's chief -- who was himself interviewed by Global Connections Television's Bill Miller earlier this year, a seemingly conflict of interest causing segment we have yet to review -- to provide FUNCA "a similar 15 minute broadcast slot on UNTV. Please say when (soon) or explain why now, and the applicable content neutral rules."

  The response came from, who else, Dujarric. Instead of explaining any rules, or why this propaganda is on UNTV, he snarked "If you would like to appear on Bill Miller's show, you should contact him directly."

  That is obviously not the point. Rather, why is UNTV showing (repeatedly) an outside show, which is now promoting UNCA, which sought to get media thrown out of the UN?

FUNCA noted to DPI's chief with its request for rules, "the broadcast on UNTV also again raised the question of DPI's lack of impartiality or of allowing space for more than a one party system."

As noted, earlier t

his month, Dujarric threatened Inner City Press about a single tweet that mentioned World War Two and UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous who owes his JOB to France's veto power won in WW2.

  Dujarric has refused to explain how photos taken during a non-consensual raid of Inner City Press' office on March 18 were leaked to BuzzFeed on March 21, right after that publication contacted Ban's spokesman with questions about the raid. We will continue to push on all this. Watch this site.

Dujarric is UNCA's main supporter (and even an opponent of anything more than a one party system) and here are just a few reasons. Dujarric complained when Inner City Press published audio of UNCA president Pamela Falk screaming in an on the record meeting, audio here and here. What next? Watch this site.

UN Television Loops Loopy Claim by UNCA's Pamela Falk to Represent All UN Correspondents: Pamela False?

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 29 -- The UN Correspondents Association is now broadcasting its propaganda on UN Television, saying it is a “trade association of all of the correspondents of the UN.”

  That is false, and the speaker of the line, Pamela Falk of CBS, knows that it is false. 

  Back on February 22, in an on the record session in front of the official who run UNTV, Falk screamed at Inner City Press not to write about her, and not to dare write to her employer, CBS. 

  (She would, however, send a censorship threat from her CBSNews.com e-mail address.)

  Now she appears in an “interview” with Global Connections Television, a venue which says its interviews “UN officials and ambassadors.” So which one is Falk?

  When Falk filmed the segment, multiple sources have told Inner City Press she demanded in advance no questions about Inner City Press or the Free UN Coalition for Access.

  Global Connections was asked, back then, for a review copy of the show. None was provided. Now it is online, and will be broadcast propaganda style in the UN's lobby.

Falk brags about a prize she got -- from the very organization she “leads” -- and about her “election” -- which came with no other candidate. Those who run UNTV have tried to keep UNCA the only game in town, unsuccessfully.

  On March 18 they conducted a non-consensual raid on Inner City Press' office -- and UNCA's Pam Falk ghoulishly took photographs. On March 21 photographs were leaked to BuzzFeed, right after that publication contacted Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky with questions about the raid.

  That weekend Falk send Inner City Press a legal threat, from her CBSNews.com email address, saying to “cease and desist” from even questioning why she was taking photos of the raid on the Press' office. A trade association of all correspondents of the UN? Hardly. This has been raised, and we will have more on this.

UNCA's Falk, Even on Pro-UN TV, Says “No Questions on ICP,” Raid Photos

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 4 -- While the originator of the raid on Inner City Press' office at the UN on March 18 was the Department of Public Information, we have noted that the president of the United Nations Correspondents Association, Pamela Falk of CBS, was on the scene taking photographs.

  Now Falk has taped a UN propaganda vanity television show, "Global Connections" by Bill Miller -- but said before the taping, according to multiple witnesses, No questions about Inner City Press, no questions about “internal matters.”

  What is internal about censorship? About abusive legal threats against the freedom of the press?

  On March 22, photographs from inside Inner City Press office, of its desk and bookshelf, were published on BuzzFeed, provided by an anonymous account, “Concerned UN Reporter.”

Pamela Falk rather than explaining why she was taking photos issued a legal threat to Inner City Press to not even ask the question, from her CBSNews.com e-mail address.

  Inner City Press wrote to CBSNews' Up to the Minute, and higher, to ascertain if the threat was from CBS. The only response so far? “Ask Pamela Falk.”

  Well, no. Under Falk, UNCA strategy is to initiate a verbal exchange with Inner City Press, as Tim Witcher of Agence France Presse did on March 8, then claim when there is a verbal response -- “lapdogs” -- to feel threatened, as Reuters' correspondent did. No more.

  When Falk for whatever reason agreed to appear on the “Global Connections” show, produced by a UNA-USA person with whom Inner City Press has never exchanged a hostile word, one would think it would be open.

  But before the filming began, Falk said loudly, no questions about Inner City Press or “internal matters.”

  Hey, Inner City Press which was repeatedly elected to the UNCA Executive Committee quit in disgust after 2012 attempts to throw it and other journalists out of the UN. With another elected UNCA Executive Committee member who quit in disgust, Inner City Press founded the Free UN Coalition for Access.

  Now, as the UN raided Inner City Press' office, Falk ghoulishly takes photographs, refuses to comment to a web site to which her UNCA leaked photos, then tells even “Global Connections” television she will not answer any questions.

  This is free press? This is UNCA? This is the CBS of Edward R. Murrow? A fish rots from the head. It's time for a change. Watch this site.